It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.